RUSSIA’S NAVY
BUILDING SUBMARINES SIXTIETH KEEL IAID OTHER CRAFT BEING BUILT (By Telegraph—Press Association Copyright) Received July* 2-5, 8.38 pm. LONDON, July 24. Telegraph's uaval correspondent learns authoritatively«that Russia, last month, laid the keel of her uOth. subinari A. Orders have been placed for ten more. The majority are 800 tons with a speed of 13 knots and a seven thousand miles radius. They arc armed with one four-inch gun and ten torpedo tubes. The correspondent points out that, four years ago, Russia had only 15 submarines, most of which were obsolete. Russia is also building (cruisers and destroyers, and is modernising two old b&t tlesh i ps.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 173, 26 July 1935, Page 7
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